causckanrum virginia governor bob mcdonald are going to iowa, and chris christie and scott walker are in new hampshire, but they're not there to campaign for mitt romney, are they? >> no, they're not. they're there preparing for 2016, which is probably the republican party's best bet at this point. but th is allyreg. t thaeolhe right who are scared about this are actually right, that pollsters are actually interacting with people who are more progressive, more centrist, and less identifying with what we think of now as the republican party. that's just a state of reality. the republic party is shrinking, so by defition, mns tolls a g to encounter folk who don't necessary agree with the radical ways the party is constructed. we've been chuckling all day about this sam jackson ad,ut the ad reflects the fact that people are waking up to the reality that mitt romney simply isn't a reallyredie oer ve competent politician. and all these gaffes and all these mistakes continue to reinscribe that fact. >> to both of you, we have an interesting end note because it's not just mitt romney who is